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A march anized by stunts foc on tolerance the wake of the fatal shootg of an openly gay boy.

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VALENTE ROAD: THE STORY OF MURRED GAY TEEN LAWRENCE KG

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In 2008, Lawrence "Larry" Kg, 15 years-old and openly gay was shot and killed by his 14 year old classmate Brandon McInerney after Larry asked Brandon to be his Valente. - California teenager Brandon McInerney, who plead guilty to send-gree murr the killg of a gay stunt, was sentenced Monday to 21 years prison.

Not so much his sexualy, which I didn't know until really much later when I started workg wh the gay and lbian center Los Angel.... Larry was shed to the hospal, where he died two days later of bra Larry Kg shootg beme the most proment gay-bias crime sce the murr of Matthew Shepard 10 years ago. California's Supreme Court has jt legalized gay marriage.

CALIF. TEEN BRANDON MCINERNEY SENTENCED TO 21 YEARS FOR POT-BLANK MURR OF GAY CLASSMATE

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There are gay characters on popular TV shows such as "Gossip Girl" and "Ugly Betty, " and no one seems to notice.

Kids like Larry are so fortable wh the ncept of beg openly gay that they are g out younger and younger. One study found that the average age when kids self-intify as gay has tumbled to 13. Even as homosexualy has bee more accepted, the prospect of beg openly gay middle school rais a troublg set of issu.

YOUNG, GAY AND MURRED JUNR HIGH

Three years ago, 15-year-old Lawrence Kg was shot a Southern California classroom. Now, his acced murrer's trial is brgg natnal attentn to the issue of gay bullyg. * larry king gay teen *

"I said, 'Larry, are you gay? The Larry book talked about how he was gay and falsely asserted that he drsed Goth and drag.

Kids nearby tnted him for beg gay. " But the therapist told Greg he thought that Larry was jt tryg to get attentn and might not unrstand what meant to be gay. Every day a driver would take Larry to school, and some weeks he went to nearby Ventura, where he attend gay youth-group meetgs.

GAY TEEN LARRY KG PHED BOUNDARI BEFORE HE WAS SHOT

Epste, a lm, brown-haired woman wh bifols, was openly gay to her lleagu, and although she was generally not out to her stunts, she kept a picture of her partner on her sk that some stunts saw. One teacher plas that by beg openly gay and discsg her girliend (prumably, no one would have plaed if she had talked about a hband), Epste brought the subject of sex to school.

"I thk that she was assertg her beliefs for gay rights.

For tweens, talkg about beg gay isn't really about sex. "Part of the reason why people are g out earlier is they have the word 'gay, ' and they know explas the feelg.

MURRED GAY TEEN LARRY KG HARASSED HIS MURRER SAYS SAVE CALIFORNIA

More than 3, 600 high schools sponsor gay-straight allianc signed to foster acceptance of gay stunts, but only 110 middle schools have them. She was approached by several boys her class who said that Larry had started tntg them the halls—"I know you want me, " he'd say—and their iends were llg them gay.

The kids are sayg sce Larry is gay, I mt be gay, too, bee I'm his brother'.

In blue-llar, immigrant Oxnard, there is no gay muny to speak of and generally very ltle public discsn of gay issu, at least until Larry's murr happened. Brandon's iends were there and started jokg that he and Larry were gog to make "gay babi" together. Deep the dience, an eighth grar turned to one of Brandon's iends and whispered, "That's so gay.

LARRY KG: GAY TEEN'S HIGH HEELS AND MAKP SET OFF MURRO SOCAL HIGH SCHOOL ATTACK?

For them, the issue isn't whether Larry was gay or straight—his father still isn't nvced his son was gay—but whether he was allowed to ph the boundari so far that he put himself and others danger. He's rentful that the gay muny has appropriated his son's murr as part of a larger e.

"I thk the gay-rights people want to be a gay-rights issue, bee mak a poster child out of my son, " Kg says. I'm not anti-gay.

AT TEEN'S TRIAL, BULLYG OF GAYS IN FOC

I have a lot of -workers and iends who are gay. On the Inter, he's bee a gay martyr, and this year's Natnal Day of Silence, an annual event created to raise awarens of homophobia, was dited to Larry.

GAY STUNT'S FLAMBOYANT BEHAVR BLAMED FOR HIS MURR

School allowed gay teen to wear high heels and make-up weeks before he was shot and killed 'hate crime'It was his right to drs like that, says ex-school officialA teacher gave him her dghter's homeg drs A former California school official has ttified that a gay teen who was shot and killed 2008 phed boundari by wearg women's high-heeled boots, jewellery and make-up to school. 'Prosecutors are tryg to prove McInerney disliked gays and mted premedated fence says McInerney me om a vlent and troubled home, was phed to the edge after Kg ma too many unwele advanc and is only guilty of opposg lawyers argued over whether cints volvg Kg were ser disptns at school that went unpunished, or jt typil actns of an awkward eighth-grar, reportsMrs Epste said she never had anyone pla to her about Kg's clothg — other than his own younger brother, who said he was beg teased bee of did say sexually appropriate thgs to other stunts and phed another stunt agast a wall the weeks before his ath, Mrs Epste add that after a send cint, a disciplary form was put to his permanent rerd.

TEEN GETS 21 YEARS IN JAIL FOR SHOOTG GAY CLASSMATE

Larry's ath has roiled gay-rights advot and parents Oxnard, a cy about 60 northwt of Los Angel, and has ronated wh the natnMts Epste said he was given appropriate disciple and was alt wh the rrect Senr Deputy District Attorney Maeve Fox asked if the name llg and shovg by Kg were anythg beyond typil eighth-gra behavr, Epste replied no.

Media outlets reported that Brandon had killed Larry "allegedly bee he intified himself as gay.

REVIEW: MURR OF GAY TEEN MEMORIALIZED ‘VALENTE ROAD’

"You wouldn't have looked at him and go, "Oh, he's outwardly gay or somethg.

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